The first -- and some say the best -- of Richard Pryor's legendary concert films, this work captures the comedian before a Long Beach, Calif., crowd in 1979. Pryor goes from imitating a drinking deer to a woman debating about going into the woods and delivers dead-on impersonations with colorful language and stinging, insightful wit. The comic roasts a range of topics, including race, the police and his favorite target -- himself.
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert was the first, live, stand up concert to be filmed, and at the time, especially with Pryor's language and topics, was considered a real risk.